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Graphic I thought of a while ago, and finally had the time to get around to finishing it. I was going for an eagle with a topee kinda thing, thought maybe a good shirt graphic? I don’t really love the colors i used and i think i’d like to go with a more pale, desaturated palette, but eh. here ya go

I’ve done a ton of patterns lately but havent posted them cause I’m lazy or something. Heres my current project. I’ve put probably…. pfff….. 6 hours into it, brainstorming, creating, learning (first 3-D), and watching my computer crash…. over and over and over again. Seriously, the first time photoshop crashed it was a little cute i guess… Like a tiny bit…. the next 8 times it was just down right infuriating.

ANY WAYs, my current project is the shirts for UCONN ski and snowboard club, which im designing the graphics for… o wait….. i mite lose if some one esles design is better, in which case i would be mad upset…. but i should be fine. The first picture was my original design which i scrapped. Its nice and simple and would make a great logo, but it just wouldn’t look good on shirts at all. The second picture is my second and hopefully final attempt. I did the 3-d text using the 3-d thing in photoshop which is really awesome, but really wicked complex. I’m probs not even using it right, but i like how it looks so screw it. I also had to hand draw both the figures, which is a pain in the ass without a tablet or even a computer mouse. But i still did it so its all good. THe skier is almost completely done, if not completely done, and the snowboarder is still in the starting stages. the skier was easy cause the pose isnt that complex but the snowboarders pose is really complex and makes me upset. eh. itll work in the end. I’m dreading squeezing in UCONN and CLUB into the picture, as it already feels crammed. I was going for a hand drawn kinda sloppy not perfect look, and use only brushes, not pen tool, vectors, selections or anything, so it came out pretty good. Really helping me master the brush tool, even if it is a 100%hard circle brush

Took a while, not because it was hard to mak or anything, I just wasn’t sure which path to take, and in the end, I took the cliche one…. I feel like I’ve seen the pattern I just made in countless places, but as I’ve learned, it’s not just the final product, it’s the act of making the art (heard that about 1000+ times in my art history class)… I guess it’s kinda true though.

Took about an hour to make. I’ve been wanting to use the pen tool more, so this seemed like a good way to get some use out of it. Its nothing fancy and is super cliche, but its nice to know that I made it. Its super easy to make and is really relaxing. Just pen tool and grid, but the number of shapes you create will get out of hand so it helps to create some foulders…. I skipped that part, just flattened it and used the filler…. probs a bad idea but watever…. I wanted to get some better colors and even patterns, but the simplicity of this just seemed nice…. especially cause it was easy.. always a plus..

If you know what adventure time is, you most likely know what the Cosmic Owl is, but for those that don’t…… its way too hard to explain…. SO any ways, this is basically some fan art based off some sketches, as much as i hate the term fan art, thats basically what it is….. gah.

I dont really love the final product but it really isnt so bad either. It was hard to stick to an illustration that had almost no connection to real life, outside of the basic animal form. I hope you enjoy it. The first photo is what i made, and the second is the inspiration….